I wonder how long will it take for someo one to install Linux on it. I mean the camera hardware is probably found else where (at least the I/O portion).
What MS says about Linux is bullshit, what Linux people say about MS is personal opinion and means just as much.
If you don't like Microsoft's bullshit use Linux. If a button is broken, or a pixel is out of place or what ever: post to the proper forums/newsgroups (this is true for MS and Linux).
To every one who expects to pick up a copy of Linux (Debian, Red Hat, Mandrake, Slackware, Suse...) do not expect to become an expert in 60 seconds or less. You spent a lot of time in front of Windows before you really knew what you were doing, and then...
Regarding software packages; Linux/Community has a lot of its own ways of doing things, some formats are favoured over others. If you want to stream video using VLS and LVC (video lan server/client) it works great, if you need a web browser do not complain about not having IE, you won't get it (try Konqueror or Mozilla they both work fairly well).
I look around and I see that 90% of the complaints about Linux/KDE/GNOME/GNU/XF86... are all about one thing: "its not windows" --> "no shit".
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Wanna hurt Microsoft? The desktop is the key.
How about auotmating the process?
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FTC vs Spammers
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Run all incoming mail through Spam Assassin and forward any message that are found spam to the FTC with the subject changed to "Complaint about spammer info and proof within". Lets say that only 0.01% of the population does it and lets assume that there are 7*10^6 net users that each recive 10 spams/days. So that's 7*10^4 e-mails to the FTC a day, every day.
I wonder how many orders to cease operations will this cause
So lets give all the big music companies all they want. I mean they'll be able, through carefully crafted lobby campaigns to sway politicians to make sure that they, get most of the money since according to them they loose the most. Oh yeah they'll still charge for music CDs and DVDs and will still want to put taxes on blank media.
So what do we get? A cute nickname: Dolly. And hey with guys like Bush in town any thing is possible.
This is a simple case of ignore.
Look at it, think for a sec that the BS Association is a Microsoft puppet, they are probably running VB for doing the testing with some really crappy
programmer doing the work (and probably very last minute) on those scripts.
Either way the BS Association has nothing on the university.
Notice some thing really intersting Micro$oft and puppets have their hand in the operations of PCI-SIG.
Now I shall ask, do you think that it benifits them to cause problems to the developers of ALL Free/Open operating systems out there that run on PC hardware?
Granted IBM, HP and Intel probably can provide access to that list for its own developrs, but what about the idependent developers that made Linux, FreeBSD and such great in the first place.
It is great to hear OSS is making inroads out there in the world but we need the USA = 25% world GDP to wave the OSS flag of Freedom than Microsoft will have some thing to really worry about. I mean with no offince once or ever how many people out of that 1,000,000,000 have phone, computer, internet, 60" tvs, sattlite tv with 500 channels and what ever other junk that we all crave
Aslong as Dell, HP/Compaq, Gateway and many many others continue to sale Windows machines Microsoft can feel pretty good about their Outlook even though it does give them 5 new viruses every day.
Aren't they controlled/owned by the XXIA?
Hold on a sec, wouldn't this movie sale the point of Napster == EVIL, XXIA is the savior?
If the XXIA can't look good then just make Napster look worse, oldest trick in the book.
Look the users general lack of carrying and compound with a good deal of ignorance what makes SysAdmin's life hellish but keeps them brining the paychecks home.
If MS, Sun or IBM thinks for one minute that some nicer gui or a little bit of AI can it all better let them try, I'm sure that companies will hire more SysAdmins just to keep those system running.
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After this 2-4 of coke, and the next 2-4 of coke I only have one 2-4 of coke left. Better buy more
Look I've been on campus while this shit-storm has happened and there were two major camps of students.
1: Don't care...
2: No way that I'm going to sit here and not bitch.
My real point is there were very few supporters for this deal, the campus news papers have put negative spin on it, students that understood the deal tried to inform others and so on.
By most this was seen as a step for Microsoft to enter the very Unix domenated computer education cirriculam. Start with one-two courses... then is a 2-3 years own 'em all
I'm really glad that this deal began to show its cracks.
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After this 2-4 of coke, and the next 2-4 of coke I only have one 2-4 of coke left. Better buy more.
First of all we are forced to use mircosoft office on almost daily basis at work, many of us recieve documents that are in word (or other microsoft formats) and it is esintial for us to be able to open them.
(This is a reply to a -1 msg)
Linux has good busnises case even though you may not see it at the momement, and in my experience running Windows 2000 on my desktop at home or at work causes too much downtime, which I can not afford.
So there you have it, Widnows is not all that great and powerful and you really want to tell me that you never had a crash or had to reinstall?
Linux isn't perfect either, and I'm not an idiolist or Richard Stalman, and the last thing that I'm is a zealot. But I do use the tools to make my job easier, and Linux does...
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I wonder how long will it take for someo one to install Linux on it. I mean the camera hardware is probably found else where (at least the I/O portion).
What MS says about Linux is bullshit, what Linux people say about MS is personal opinion and means just as much.
If you don't like Microsoft's bullshit use Linux. If a button is broken, or a pixel is out of place or what ever: post to the proper forums/newsgroups (this is true for MS and Linux).
To every one who expects to pick up a copy of Linux (Debian, Red Hat, Mandrake, Slackware, Suse...) do not expect to become an expert in 60 seconds or less. You spent a lot of time in front of Windows before you really knew what you were doing, and then...
Regarding software packages; Linux/Community has a lot of its own ways of doing things, some formats are favoured over others. If you want to stream video using VLS and LVC (video lan server/client) it works great, if you need a web browser do not complain about not having IE, you won't get it (try Konqueror or Mozilla they both work fairly well).
I look around and I see that 90% of the complaints about Linux/KDE/GNOME/GNU/XF86... are all about one thing: "its not windows" --> "no shit".
--
Wanna hurt Microsoft? The desktop is the key.
Run all incoming mail through Spam Assassin and forward any message that are found spam to the FTC with the subject changed to "Complaint about spammer info and proof within". Lets say that only 0.01% of the population does it and lets assume that there are 7*10^6 net users that each recive 10 spams/days. So that's 7*10^4 e-mails to the FTC a day, every day.
I wonder how many orders to cease operations will this cause
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Lets make spam the new game of Russian Rollete.
So lets give all the big music companies all they want. I mean they'll be able, through carefully crafted lobby campaigns to sway politicians to make sure that they, get most of the money since according to them they loose the most. Oh yeah they'll still charge for music CDs and DVDs and will still want to put taxes on blank media.
So what do we get? A cute nickname: Dolly. And hey with guys like Bush in town any thing is possible.
--
Beeaah, Beaaah, Beahhh...
This is a simple case of ignore.
Look at it, think for a sec that the BS Association is a Microsoft puppet, they are probably running VB for doing the testing with some really crappy programmer doing the work (and probably very last minute) on those scripts.
Either way the BS Association has nothing on the university.
All,
Notice some thing really intersting Micro$oft and puppets have their hand in the operations of PCI-SIG.
Now I shall ask, do you think that it benifits them to cause problems to the developers of ALL Free/Open operating systems out there that run on PC hardware?
Granted IBM, HP and Intel probably can provide access to that list for its own developrs, but what about the idependent developers that made Linux, FreeBSD and such great in the first place.
It is great to hear OSS is making inroads out there in the world but we need the USA = 25% world GDP to wave the OSS flag of Freedom than Microsoft will have some thing to really worry about. I mean with no offince once or ever how many people out of that 1,000,000,000 have phone, computer, internet, 60" tvs, sattlite tv with 500 channels and what ever other junk that we all crave
Aslong as Dell, HP/Compaq, Gateway and many many others continue to sale Windows machines Microsoft can feel pretty good about their Outlook even though it does give them 5 new viruses every day.
Aren't they controlled/owned by the XXIA?
Hold on a sec, wouldn't this movie sale the point of Napster == EVIL, XXIA is the savior?
If the XXIA can't look good then just make Napster look worse, oldest trick in the book.
Look the users general lack of carrying and compound with a good deal of ignorance what makes SysAdmin's life hellish but keeps them brining the paychecks home.
If MS, Sun or IBM thinks for one minute that some nicer gui or a little bit of AI can it all better let them try, I'm sure that companies will hire more SysAdmins just to keep those system running.
--
After this 2-4 of coke, and the next 2-4 of coke I only have one 2-4 of coke left. Better buy more
Look I've been on campus while this shit-storm has happened and there were two major camps of students.
1: Don't care...
2: No way that I'm going to sit here and not bitch.
My real point is there were very few supporters for this deal, the campus news papers have put negative spin on it, students that understood the deal tried to inform others and so on.
By most this was seen as a step for Microsoft to enter the very Unix domenated computer education cirriculam. Start with one-two courses... then is a 2-3 years own 'em all
I'm really glad that this deal began to show its cracks.
--
After this 2-4 of coke, and the next 2-4 of coke I only have one 2-4 of coke left. Better buy more.
Linux never dies.
Hey Linus,
What should I drink?
Thank alot,
Wizri,
How long beforce some one figures out how to bypass the locking and keep the ROMs on local machine? My guess 48 hours.
First of all we are forced to use mircosoft office on almost daily basis at work, many of us recieve documents that are in word (or other microsoft formats) and it is esintial for us to be able to open them. (This is a reply to a -1 msg) Linux has good busnises case even though you may not see it at the momement, and in my experience running Windows 2000 on my desktop at home or at work causes too much downtime, which I can not afford. So there you have it, Widnows is not all that great and powerful and you really want to tell me that you never had a crash or had to reinstall? Linux isn't perfect either, and I'm not an idiolist or Richard Stalman, and the last thing that I'm is a zealot. But I do use the tools to make my job easier, and Linux does...